Beast

direct characterization

• specific details about a character are stated explicitly

• is an informal expression that means something other than the literal meaning of its individual words

indirect characterization

• is the use of words that appeal to the senses

• readers infer what a character is like based on clues

Protagonist

• the central character in a story

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

Antagonist

• A comparison without using like or as

• opposes the protagonist

Foil

• minor character who provides a striking contrast to another character

• a language that is not literally true

moral dilemmas

• contrast between appearance and reality in which the reader knows more about a situation or character than the characters do

• situations in which there is a difficult choice between two courses of action

Personification

• a type of figurative language that gives human traits to object, animals, or abstract ideas

• a statement that seems contradict itself but may suggest an important truth

Allegory

• specific details about a character are stated explicitly

• a work with a literal meaning and a symbolic one

Paradox

• a statement that seems contradict itself but may suggest an important truth

• readers infer what a character is like based on clues

dramtic irony

• 
  opposes the protagonist

• contrast between appearance and reality in which the reader knows more about a situation or character than the characters do